24 dead in DR Congo floods
Twenty-four people died overnight when torrential rain and mudslides swept though shanty homes in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the authorities said Thursday.
Residents groan under heavy flooding of Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway
IN practical demonstration of the unflinching commitment of the present administration in Lagos State, led by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode towards implementing the Strategic Transport Master Plan, STMP, in January 2017, the Lagos State Government, through Lagos State Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, disclosed that the 14 kilometre Oshodi-Abule Egba Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, corridor, project, construction of which commenced in first week of February, would be completed in 20 months.
Flood ravages 66 communities, including Deputy governor’s village in Niger
Niger Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) has said that 66 communities in Mokwa Local Government Areas of the state have been ravaged by flood.
NEMA alerts state govt, stakeholders over impending flood
The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Yunusa Maihaja, has urged state governments and stakeholders to prepare for eminent flooding following signals from the Niger Republic.
Flood sacks over 20 Agatu villages
MAKURDI—Over 20 villages have been reportedly submerged by flood in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State after eight hours of downpour that also washed away several farmlands in the area.
NEMA issues flood alert to Kogi communities
ABUJA—The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said, yesterday in Abuja, that it had received a distress call of imminent flood in Sarkin Noma, Ganaja, Lokoja Local Government Area and Igalamela-Odolu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
